1. Finding and managing information
for your doctorate (including
Endnote): part 2
David Heading and James Bisset
2. Part 2 overview
• Using citations and references
• Finding related material
• Styles of referencing in Endnote
• Break
• Managing references - Endnote groups
• Keeping up to date with new research
3. Citation searching and references
• Demonstration of connections in academic
debate both backwards (references) and
forwards (citations)
• May be a positive or negative connection to
other literature
• Give you a quality controlled list of material to
consult if you establish the context in which it
has been cited
4. Article E that Article F that Book 3 that Article G that Article H that
refers to refers to refers to refers to refers to
Paper A Paper A Paper A Paper A Paper A
Citations
Paper A – a journal article
that you are interested in
References
Article B that Book 1 that is Article C that Article D that Book 2 that is
is referred to referred to by is referred to is referred to referred to by
by Paper A Paper A by Paper A by Paper A Paper A
5. Article Article
C E
Article Paper Article
Book 2 Book 3
B A G
2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
Book1 Book4
Article Article
D F
6. Related material
• Making connections between similar
resources
• Criteria vary significantly depending on the
database or catalogue you are using
• Sometimes the process is human, other times
automated
7. Finding Information - Hands-on
• Pick a key article and look for it in a database
• Trace academic debate using citations and
references
• Find related material in
– Databases
– Catalogues
8. Referencing style in your department
• Look at Durham e-Theses to find online
examples of recently passed theses in your
subject area.
• The bibliography will give you an indication of
the sort of referencing style that you could
use.
Durham e-Theses
http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/
9. Keeping up to date
• Automates the process of searching to save
you time
• Saved searches
– For you to re-run at convenient time
• Alert services
– Brings material to you by email or RSS feed
– Acquisitions, citations, articles matching search
terms or tables of contents (ToCs)
www.dur.ac.uk/library/research/keepuptodate/
10. Alert Services
• Books
– Durham University Library Catalogue: new books
that match search terms
• Articles
– Citations: Web of Science and Google Scholar
– Keywords: Google Scholar and ZETOC
– Table of Contents: ZETOC
11. Summary
• Features enable you to make connections
between related research material
• Endnote styles are important for controlling
the look of in text citations and references
• Groups help you manage your library
• Keeping up to date with new research can be
automated and so save you time
Editor's Notes
Just because an article has several citations, doesn’t mean its a good article. Quite possible, those citations are picking up on errors in methodology, results or conclusions.
References – get these from a bibliography either physical copy or set of hyperlinks in some databases. Fixed number.Citations – key resources are WoS and GS. Changes over time.
Check with your supervisor
Any PhD is conducted over a long period of time and a part-time one even more so. Therefore it is really important to stay up to date with new research that your reading isn’t out of date by the time you come to write up. A number of tools to help you. Some are unique services , others are a matter of preference e.g. email or RSS - RSS feeds covered in ‘keeping up-to-date’ session.
ZETOC Login to get personalised interface. Journals and Conferences. Do KW search and key journals to consult and you can get the ToC emailed to you to check for relevant articles.
